Multimedia Authoring: Building and Developing Documents/Book and Disk Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Learning to Think Multimedia	1
	The Restrictions of Linearity	2
	Interactive Documents before Multimedia: Hypertext	4
	Goals of This Book	7
	Terminology Used in This Book	8
	Applicability: Who Needs Multimedia?	19
	Is There Anything Multimedia Can't Do?	20
	What Makes Multimedia Special?	26
	Making Music: How Many Tunes from Only 88 Keys?	41
	The Author as Composer	42
	Pace, Volume, and Tempo	45
	Storyboards: Visual Outlines	53
	Storyboard History	54
	How Do You Start?	56
	Storyboarding for Interactive Media	59
	Different Kinds of Stories, Different Kinds of Boards	60
	Components: Modules and Links	77
	What Is a Module?	78
	What Is a Link?	81
	Restrictions of Tools and Media	84
	How the Brain Retains Information	85
	Moving Modules	90
	In Our Last Episode...	92
	Open-Ended Links	98
	Structure: Analyzing the Information in Your Database	103
	What Is an Information Database?	104
	What Comes First?	106
	Profiling User Information	111
	The Nature of the Information Database	113
	Information Hierarchies	115
	Flat Versus Structured Information Layout	118
	Assumptions: Right Ones and Wrong Ones	125
	The Myth of Prerequisite Information	126
	Is There Such a Thing as a Valid Assumption?	129
	How Information Is Used	130
	Building Assumptions into the Document	133
	In the Audience's Shoes	136
	Preparing Paper and Online Documents from Common Source	138
	Road Maps: How To Get Around In Cyberspace	151
	What is Cyberspace, Anyway?	152
	Orienting the Reader: The Table of Contents	153
	Directory Listings	156
	"You Are Here"	159
	Is That All There Is?	161
	Guided Interactive Navigation	169
	Document Structure: Islands and Streams	181
	Document Conversion Versus Document Creation	182
	From Text to Hypertext	183
	From Hypertext to Hypermedia	187
	Advantages of Conversion	190
	Advantages of Modular Design	194
	Creating or Adapting - Common Needs	197
	Adapting an Existing Document	198
	Creating a New Document	199
	Multimedia Projects: Checklists, Issues, and Questions	207
	Integrating System Components	208
	Using the Checklists	210
	Checklist - Document Analysis	212
	Checklist - Roles of Development Staff	213
	Checklist - Authoring System Analysis	216
	Checklist - Delivery System Analysis	218
	Checklist - Understanding your Resources	222
	Timeline - Project Overview	223
	Conclusion - New Technology, New Information, New Aesthetics	229
	Appendix A - Online Examples	233
	Appendix B - Glossary	245
	Appendix C - Bibliography	273
	Index	277